how to view and edit meta tags in python programming

Question

I have used other programming languages like java to edit meta tags but every time i am only able to edit the number in the genre tag.

I have seen in many soft wares like media monkey enables us to edit the genre tag with the name we want.

Currently, genre tag only allows to write numbers from 1 to 79 but not the strings.

Example code :

from ID3 import *
    try:
      id3info = ID3('/some/file/moxy.mp3')
      print id3info
      id3info['TITLE'] = "Green Eggs and Ham"
      id3info['ARTIST'] = "Moxy Früvous"
          for k, v in id3info.items():
            print k, ":", v
        except InvalidTagError, message:
          print "Invalid ID3 tag:", message

How can i edit the genre tag with the string i want in python ?

Thanks

Answer 1

ID3v1 only supports one byte numeric values for genre.

ID3v2 has broader support for metadata. In ID3v2, you can set a TCON frame with your genre string.

For example, using the pytagger package:

import tagger

id3 = tagger.ID3v2(r'whatever.mp3')

tagged = False
# Try to find a TCON frame to replace the contents
for frame in id3.frames:
    if frame.fid == 'TCON':
        frame.set_text('Blues')
        tagged = True
# There were no TCON frames, add one
if not tagged:
    genre = id3.new_frame('TCON')
    genre.set_text('Blues')
    id3.frames.append(genre)

id3.commit()